hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.

Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 year ago

    I wish python was not indentation aware. It has discouraged me from learning it.

    lol, then you just don’t like Python. You can’t disassociate the two things.

    • El BartoEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Yup, I don’t like it because of it.

      • @tszEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        You flat out haven’t used it.

        • El BartoEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Correct. I don’t think we’re disagreeing. The language has one deal-breaker to me and that’s all I need to know.

          That’s like saying “you won’t be friends with Bob because he’s likes to go to smoking-friendly places all the time and you don’t? BUT YOU DON’T KNOW THE GUY!!!”